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Malcolm Bradbury
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- 9781509823390
- 01 juni 2017
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Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is author of the novels
Eating People is Wrong (1959);
Stepping Westward (1965);
The History Man (1975); which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and was adapted as a famous television series;
Rates of Exchange (1983) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize;
Cuts: A Very Short Novel (1987), also televised; and
Doctor Criminale (1992). His critical works include
The Modern American Novel (1984; revised edition, 1992);
No, Not Bloomsbury (essays, 1987);
The Modern world: Ten Great Writers (1988);
From Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature (with Richard Ruland, 1991) He is the author of a collection of seven stories and nine parodies, entitled
Who Do You Think You Are? (1976), and of several works of humour and satire, including
Why Come to Slaka? (1986),
Unsent Letters (1988; revised edition, 1995) and
Mensonge (1987). Many of his books are published by Penguin. In addition, he has written many television plays and the television 'novel'
The Gravy Train and
The Gravy Train Goes East. He has adapted several television series, including Tom Sharpe's
Porterhouse Blue, Kinglsey Amis's
The Green Man and Stella Gibbon's'
Cold Comfort Farm, now a feature film.
Malcolm Bradbury lives in Norwich, travels good deal, and in 1991 he was awarded the CBE.
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A funny satire of academic life in the 1970s.
Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That’s your problem-solving system . . . But haven’t we tried all that? Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard’s desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard’s wife Barbara, promiscuous ’70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood. The History Man is Malcolm Bradbury’s masterpiece, the definitive campus novel and one of the most influential novels of the 1970s. Funny, disconcerting and provocative, Bradbury brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his way around campus. But beneath the surface is an altogether more affecting portrait: it reveals a marriage in crisis and demonstrates the fragility of the human heart. `Exhilarating . . . A book which captures for all time the spirit of an age’ Margaret Drabble `Grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking’ A. S. Byatt
Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That’s your problem-solving system . . . But haven’t we tried all that? Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard’s desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard’s wife Barbara, promiscuous ’70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood. The History Man is Malcolm Bradbury’s masterpiece, the definitive campus novel and one of the most influential novels of the 1970s. Funny, disconcerting and provocative, Bradbury brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his way around campus. But beneath the surface is an altogether more affecting portrait: it reveals a marriage in crisis and demonstrates the fragility of the human heart. `Exhilarating . . . A book which captures for all time the spirit of an age’ Margaret Drabble `Grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking’ A. S. Byatt
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